Cadence: A Study of Closure in Tonal Music

English | 2024 | ISBN: 0190056444 | 646 Pages | True PDF | 47 MB
Cadence is a comprehensive examination of how formal units in European art music of the tonal era achieve closure. The book brings together the author's decades-long investigations into cadence, a compositional device that is readily experienced both by musicians and non-musicians, but one that has proven intractable to clear and precise theoretical formulation.